“There is a question as to whether this is even legal. Normally, even the acting attorney general needs to be appointed by the Senate and the Congress, and they need to vet and give their blessing. And that hasn’t occurred. So Donald Trump has just made another power grab. The constitution is shaking right now.”

The Saturday Night Massacre refers to an incident in 1973 when President Nixon ordered his attorney general and deputy attorney general to fire independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating the Watergate scandal. Both refused and resigned, before Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in command at the Department of Justice, agreed to fire Cox.

The Vancouver protest was one of 900 such events being organized in U.S. and Canadian cities, including Victoria and Toronto, according to Democrats Abroad.